Fedora Mobility

Fedora Mobility is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at supporting NetBooks, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and tablets, it could over time be expanded to also cover things such as Set Top Boxes (STBs), connected TVs and other devices.

Mission

Fedora Mobility is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at ensuring that the hardware used in devices such as Netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) work out of the box with Fedora. It could also be used to produce various spins for Gnome Mobile development, the MeeGo™ project, KDE Plasma NetBook workspace etc

Current Status

Fedora Mobility is moving forward. We now incorporate the MeeGo™ NetBook UX and Sugar user interfaces in two official Fedora Spins.

The stock Fedora works well on most netbooks

Fedora 13 includes two official Fedora Mobility Spins

The dependency reduction is an ongoing project and always will be.

Official Fedora Mobility Spins for Fedora 13

Approved Fedora Mobility Spins for Fedora 14

To the future and beyond

Moving forward Fedora Mobility will continue to support and run the latest Sugar interface. We have some OLPC XO-1s and XO-1.5s and are working to see what is required to get the XO-1 and the XO 1.5 fully supported in vanilla Fedora.

We're reviewing the MeeGo™ NetBook UX with the intention of including the MeeGo™ NetBook UX into a future release of Fedora replacing the current Moblin™ UX. This should be initially completed for Fedora 14.

The KDE team are working with Fedora Mobility to support the KDE Plasma NetBook interface for Fedora 14.

ARM platform support is also on the agenda but that needs more investigation. With the introduction of ARM based SmartBooks and Tablets it will become and important platform for Fedora Mobility and Fedora in general.

Other ideas for the Fedora Mobility project include support for more embedded architectures as well as Spins or Remixes for MIDS or Set Top Boxes such as a Moovida Media Centre spin.